RE: Digitech,DOD Series PDS,RDS

["Wordsman, Lee" <LWordsman@PIRNIE.COM>]

While were on this topic, I want to ask a question that I may have posed
once before but never gotten an answer to.  I use a Roland FS-1 footswitch
on my RDS 4.0 open and close a loop for overdubbing.  It takes 1.5 presses
on the switch to get the RDS to either open or close the loop.  I expected
that it would only require me to step on the switch once and I could either
overdub or hold the loop indefinitely.  Any solutions to this.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: legion [mailto:legion@voicenet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 11:33 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> Subject: Re: Digitech,DOD Series PDS,RDS
> 
> 
> > I used a very early "digital" delay from Dod/Digitech.  I 
> am almost sure
> > that this unit had the name DOD on it.   I lost the unit in 
> move and would
> > like to replace it.   I also believe that it was 
> manufactured in the early
> > eighties(83,84).  I purchased it in 1984.  It was able to 
> give chorus,
> > flange, slapback, and delay.  The sound was incredible( 
> probable anlalog -
> > CCD devices).  It was a 19-inch rack unit.  It had three 
> push-in knobs and a
> > couple of pots.
> > I think it was one the RDS or PDS series. Does anyone out 
> there know where I
> > could purchase another one of these units?
> 
> DOD (later Digitech0 made quite a few rack mount delay systems. The
> early DOD ones were very simple with a few knobs for mixing dry/wet
> signal, delay length and time, an LFO of sorts, and push 
> buttons to set
> preset delay time ranges (this is where you got the double, flange,
> delay options). These then evolved into the "Time Machine" RDS systems
> by digitech.
> 
> Digitech made at least three different series of time 
> machines all with
> the RDS line and the actualdelay times in the title.
> 
> ie: RDS960 was 960 millisenconds, RDS3.6 was 3.6 seconds, 
> RDS8000 was 8
> seconds long
> 
> All of these had the LFO, mix contorls and preset buttons but 
> the later
> versions also added a hold feature, trigger button, and 
> quieter overall
> performance. As far as i know all the models were digital delays; the
> digitech RDS certainly was.
> 
> These show up all the time everywhere. If you can't find one 
> locally in
> a music store that sells used gear you can always find anumber of them
> forsale on the web in newsgroups or at very least in stock at Daddy's
> junky music
> http://www.ugbm.com/group.shtml
> 
> look under rack effects.
> 
> They should range from $100-200 depending on the model and 
> condition. I
> adore my RDS 3.6.
>  good luck!
> 
> 
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